Sleep!

I was going to start 500mg of cipro twice a day starting this morning but I think I’ll push it off another 12hrs. I’m feeling a bit better and got a solid 7-8 hours of sleep last night. I’m hacking up nasty stuff and this leads be to believe I’m at the tail-end of whatever I picked up in the Galapagos. I’m trying to drink as much water as I can, take vitamins, and I’m going through my citrus fruit.

I haven’t used the motor for the past 30 hours, finally some steady wind! I haven’t needed to attend to the sails much which has been nice considering I’ve had no energy.

When I was in Colombia a few years ago I got deathly ill. At the time I didn’t speak Spanish well and I thought I had a case of Dengi fever, I could not communicate with the doctors well. Last year my friend said to rule out dengi because I had no rash, “you probably had malaria” she informed me! When I was admitted to the hospital I had a 105 fever and it was climbing, I was delirious and could not move about by myself. Yesterday I was worried that the malaria was coming back. If that was the case I don’t know that I’d make it through this crossing. My friend Roger (the one whose book we sell on the site) has reoccurring malaria, “It’s no joke Alex, seriously”!

Anyway, I’m feeling better today and I’m not as worried.

It is nice to be sailing along towards French Polynesia.

I’m going to take another easy day reading and sleeping if I can.

Cheers.

Alex